Computer Science Teachers Association
From the website:
The Computer Science Teachers Association is a membership organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines. CSTA provides opportunities for K-12 teachers and students to better understand the computing disciplines and to more successfully prepare themselves to teach and learn.
I suspect that the issues that face teachers in more formal classroom settings are largely the same ones that face us when we try to teach topic maps to users. As a matter of fact, other than being age/gender/culture adaptations, I would venture to say that the basic teaching techniques remain largely the same over a lifetime.
I can remember very enthusiastic teachers who had great examples that got kids (myself included) interested in literature, math, science, etc., and I can remember those who were putting in the hours until the end of the school day. I saw the same techniques, with some dressing up because we become more “serious” the older we get (allegedly) in college and a couple of rounds of graduate school.
Not that we have to make silly techniques to teach topic maps but having a few of those isn’t going to hurt anyone or detract from the “gravitas” of the paradigm.
BTW, the price is right for the Computer Science Teachers Association, it’s free! Who knows? You might learn something and perhaps get better at learning with others (what else would teaching be?).